Hi Cindy, I don't have a scanner nor do I have the first clue as how I would do it but I just thought I would mention that I have downloaded a book that had this problem. A few times I was able to fix it my self and in other times I had to print out the offending pages and have sighted help to lay them next to each other and fit the peices back together. I mention this because others may find this after the book has been submited. I know you still have the book so you don't have to print this out. smile Shannon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 1:36 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] question re scanning oddity > I have a question - a puzzle. > > I've validated several books in which sentences are > fragmented and parts are a few lines, or even a page, > away. I haven' figured out what might cause this, and > I wonder if anyone, perhaps some of you more technical > people like Guido and Pratik, might have an idea. I > figure that the kinds of letter recognition errors we > usually see are caused by different type fonts and > possibly, in cases of garbled text, a difference in > contrast between the type font and the paper used > (even when gray scale is used for scanning), and the > end-of-line garbage, it's been explained, is probably > caused either by the binding not being pressed down > hard enough or by other pages, or the book cover, > extending beyond the page being scanned. But I haven't > been able to figure out what would cause perfect parts > of sentences being somewhere other than where they > belong. Sometimes they are close by the rest of the > sentence and sometimes some distance away. > > Does anyone have an explanation? I don't think it's > anything the person scanning or is not doing, but the > other kinds of errors make sense to me and this > doesn't. > > Just curious. > > > Cindy > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo >